chainless bike

I can’t quite get my brain around how, exactly, the new Stringbike works.

The Stringbike creators, at bike manufacturing company Schwinn Csepel Zrt, write that “asymmetry has been the source of lots of problems”. However, other than slipping chains and oily jeans, they’re mostly “unnoticeable” problems, until you’ve tried a symmetrical system first hand.

The system seems pretty complicated to me but I can see the appeal of a bike without grease.